Hi Everyone
please read the list below and type your 1st and 2nd choices in the 'comments'.
As soon as everyone has voted, I'll collate the votes and announce the Purple Coo Autumn Read 2011 on the Purple Coo main site.
And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson
An epic novel that covers Scotland’s social and political changes from 1950 until the present day.
Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis (Book 1 of the Leiberman Papers series)
A psychological murder mystery set in 1902 Vienna. A whole host of strong characters, including a psychiatrist who is a disciple of Sigmund Freud
Excellent Woman by Barbara Pym
A romantic comedy set in 1950’s London. Mildred Lathbury leads a virtuous, if rather unexciting existence, until a series of new people and unsettling events destabilizes things.
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson (Back by popular demand)
Ex-private eye Jackson Brodie is in Edinburgh at a loose end, while his girlfriend Julia acts in a dreadful fringe production, when a body washes up on Cramond Island - A joy to read, full of wit, surprise and intrigue. A cut above the usual detective stuff...
Started Early, Took my Dog by Kate Atkinson
The fourth of Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie mysteries is littered with murdered women. Set in Leeds, it links crimes committed in the Seventies to questions being asked in the present day, and opens as big-boned, big-hearted WPC Waterhouse begins her career.
The Last Letter from Your Lover by JoJo Moyes
How about an old fashioned classy type of romance? Set in 1960 and 2003, concerning an enigmatic love letter signed simply, ‘B’ that has an unsettling effect on the lives of two women, forty years apart.
The picture is The Blue Fan by F C B Cadell
The picture is The Blue Fan by F C B Cadell
